The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-25 00:00:00

DIONEY MARKET AND COMMZE.CILL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market is still well supplied with capital, and the commercial public find little diffi culty in discounting their bills at rates fractionally below the official minimum. The inquiry for ac commodation to-day has been moderate, and many are now indulging the hopeful feeling that lower ( Plotations will roon prevail. The charges for the bast paper having a week or so to run are St r per cent., but the larger number of transactions are recorded at 9 per cent. There were no bullion operations of importance at the Bank yesterday. I\ll.. John Piddington, of Gracechurch-street, foreign patent agent, has failed with liabilities estimated at £30,000; and Messrs. Duckworth and Co., wine merchants, with debts and liabilities to a considerable amount. Business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days has been rather dull. SugAr has maintained former prices, while tin has been at rather lower rates. In coffee an average business has been reported at steady quota tions, while rice, fruit, and spices have remained inactive at about former rates. Tallow has been in better request at enhanced quotations for both pre sent and forward delivery. _ . At a general meeting, held to-day, of the pro prietors of the Demerara Railway Company, Mr. Rohn A. Tinno in the chair, the statement of Recounts presented exhibited a balance on revenue acount of £4,684 14s. 53., out of which the direc tors proposed a payment of £2,600 13.5. 6d., the preference dividend on capital applicable to the old line, and of £1,688 155., a dividend at the rate of 2i per cent." per annum on the original stock, amounting together to £4,289 Bs. 63., leaving a balance of £395 ss, 11d. to be carried forward to the current half-year. Two o'CLoCK. At the Paris Bourse this day, according to 'touters telegram, the 3 per Cent. Renter were quoted 64f. 90c. to 641. 92c. Firm. Business recently has been more active in the English Stock Market than for some time past. The public are more hopeful than they wore, and are consequently investers where they were sellers of stock. Under such circumstances, the Funds continue to make daily pro , gross, and Consols for money have now reached 89 1 1, and for the account 891 I. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 871 ; Exchequer Billet March, lOs to 6i die. ; and India 5 per Cents., 1041 105 ; Bank Stock is marked 237 239; and India do., 213. In the Foreign Market there is not much activity, but prices are generally firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70 ; do. Consolides, 49a y ; Mexican, 261 ; do. New 251 d ; Greek, 221 ; Spsnisk Passive, 30} ; do. Certificates, 132. ; .Russian, 871 a ; and the Confederate Loan, 65 66. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been on a limited sc - tle ; prices, however, exhibit a firmer tone. North 'Western, Metros Politan, and South Eastern, have each improved Ss. ; and Great Western, £1 ; while Caledonian and Great Eastern have declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines continue dull without material change in values. Bask and Miscellaneous Shares remain in Moderate request. Union of Amsterdam have des alined ; Alliance Bank, 10s.; Bank of Austra lasia, £1; and London and County, £l. In the Miscellaneous Market Royal Mail Steam have declined to 93 94; General Credit have im. Proved to 61 1. BRITIISH FUNDS—CLOSNG PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Conqola Do Account, Nov. 12. b9 a 3 per Cent. Reduced B 7i New 3 per Cent New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891.... Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 Aumpties, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire s th April, Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 -- March. Juno. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4& 31 per Cent. 610 12 Do £5OO Do £lOO and £ 2OO 12 Zank England Stk, 51 per Ct. Do Account.. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 213 Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 1 8 7 0 Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 ........ 961 Do Certificates Do Account Do 1 per Cont. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — Do 41i pei Cent. Do Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Brazilian 5 per Cent. Do 41 per Cent., 1863 B2l. 1852-58-60 Do _1 Buenos Ayres 6 per, Cent . Do Account.... . — Chi lian 6 per Cent. — Do 4} per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent — Cuba, 6 per Cent. - Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Danish 3 per Cent., 1826 Do 5 per Cent, 1864 it quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l2 Do, Provisonal Land Warrant — zgyptian 7 per Cent 93 Do, Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds %reek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex.-Coupons — Do Account Do Coupons .............. - • De Account Guatemala 5 per Cent. - Do 1839 and 1859 Italian 5 per Cent.(Siaremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent . Do Account .................. Do 1864 ................ --- Do 6 per Cenf. Anglo-French........ dis 'Ditto Scrip, £33 paid ................ dis x d bo French Scrip, Ex. 26f 20c........ dis x d Moorish Imperial 45 per Cent .......... -- New Granada — Do 2 por Cent. -. Do Deferred Do Land 'Warrants (Hectares) — Do Debentures, 4 por Ct., April 186) -- _ Do do Aug., 1866 — V .„ eruvian 41 per Cent — Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) .. — Do 41 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 ....... ..• Do Account ...................... Do 3 per Cent., 1856, 7, '9, '60,,62;3 — , Do Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 4i per Cent., 1850. - Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent 1859 .............. 3 Do i per Cent, 1862 Do Anglo-Dutch - Do Scrip, £55 paid ...... Pin Sardinian 5 per Cent - Do Account..... Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account 4B Do New Deferred — Do Account Do l'assive Do Account .... 30/ 30 Ipanish Cut, of Coup not fund ed — 131 Do Acount .. z Swedish, 4 per Cent. — Do Scrip, L6O paid pm Turkish 6 per Cent. 1851 — Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 ............ 68/ 8 Do Account .......... Do £lOO Bonds .................... 6 per Cont. 1862 ................ Do Account .................... 70 a I .D 0 £lOO Bonds .................... 701 Do 1863 .............. Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent....... —• 1)o 1863 Scrip, £lO paid ............ .-- 'Venezuela 3 per Cont. Do Account — 110 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1861 42 3 Dividends on the above payable in London Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. t3lgian 4i per Cent., Ex. 25f 13 atch 2i p©r Cent. Ex. 12 Gail Do 4 per Cent. Certificates Vroneh ltentes, 2 per Cent. — It Ilian, 5 per Cent.. 1861 Ex. 25 francs — 7 Do Account 6IA I Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4 s. Pieltnontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f — THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money.. S9a / Do Account B9l i Liverpool Cotton IVlarket—Tlils Day, There is a good dtmand for cotton to-day, at an improvement in prices. Sales, probably 8,000 or 10,000 bAles, SHARE 16 _::1410113—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOO&S. Share' Railways. p aid. Closing I Business Price. done. Bir.. Wol., and Str. .tiythe and 'Fyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonlan 0.. • •Jork and Bandon ornwall A IA. gets no dig Do.l; t,il(lpo.pan.ha (been paid to Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. !Lilasg. and S. Western. (ireatEastern, Ord. stk ! Ditto A stock 81 £4 1231 1211 123} 11 51 6/ 31 13 16 17 84 86 105 107 131 111 431 i 4 Ditto East Anglian. 61 GreatNorthof Scotlaud "lreat Northern Do A stock Do It do A. S. an of Irelan- Great Westerr,Original. Do :qtr Val Lnot. ntuw.l 6j 7} 1;91 1301 142 141 129 t3l 8) 91 74i 75 130 141,1 31 2i 3i niiiiii Do. South Wales .... Do. West aid. —Oxford 53 54 39 42 Do Newport Do Hereford Lancashire & Yorkehirt London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat, and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So%th Wer,tet n Shef., & Lincoln. Uaryport and Carlisle. 9) 101 113 i 114 65 67 103 105 33 4C 1131 114 k P 4 86 61i 651 1131 1 661 JAI 1 14 951 6 DO 4 shares.. getropolitan llidland 111 12 131 121,} 101 '503 111 1304 ,001 : Do Birming. etz Derby, ~11d. Gt. W. of Irelane! Do. shares ' I liid Kent North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick I Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds 62 63 24 5 107 b 1071 i C5l 9 5 i t i Do York I Do Carlisle Do. Stock. (It Darling Do do 1855-58 Do do 1Ut.61 1 ,North London Do New ...... Do New, 1864. . North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. K, Aber. stook Do Scot. Mid. stook Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern Staines,Wok.,andWok Call' Vale Do C Vale of Neath Waterford As Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.,tlt 85 CO 95 f 6 125 130 35i 38i 9 10 75 84 ( 118 123 1 14 p 76 77 101 111 131 138 56 68 85 t 7 82i 831 8 9 155 IGO 34 44 p 98 10) 32 34 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways itlantio & St Lawrene. 110 m., Baroda6c.Cept Gu. 5 per cent.. ..• • - Do. E. aullalo and Lase Miro: Do. Preferonee Buffalo,BrantotGodriel 6 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 18; Do. do. July 1, 187 Jo. do. Juue 1, 18; llcutta..h S.llastn. (Lin :!apcTown t Dock Seri Demerara 7 p.a. per. pf sJastu. Bengal go. 5 p. h:ast Indian. n_ u. 5 p. c Do. do. J Ext.... Grand Trunk 01 Cann.i . Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent Do. Ist rrel. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 2cl Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d pref. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... (3t.lndlarenin.gua. s p. , Do. Gu'. 5 per cent.. Do. New gua. 5 p. 0.. it. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per Dent Do. 4/ per 0ent..... Do.. . It. W. 01 Canada Share. Po. New ...... Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt )o. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.. .. radian Branch Limited Viadras uar., sp. o. Do. 41 p. o. Extensioi Dc. 44 do— . . Do. Fifth Extension p. o. Bnd , Hobson's Bay. Nlewßrouswtok Canth Cla,ts A and B. 1. [Ll.C'daB po Ist pi bdt- Scinde Du. Delhi )o. do. runj Rub c De. Indus. St. F 10) t,04 all all all all all Paid, all 100 1100 100 ( 2 0 100 Closing Price. 54 55 ;00 101 die pr 4i 5 7 8 95 103 92 04 100 i 1011 ICO 101 19 20 83 92 67 70 59 61 63 65 55 57 51 63 96 50 28 30 26 :8 100 k 10 ' i id pr id 1 r gg 100 9 9} ilk 11• [0 02 77 81 100 101 V 3 05 88 00 8 CO : fs 80 83 90 Jio 98i 90i id par 98} 09:: 05 07 101 i 1 13.14., COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. -- British Columbia, 6 per • cent., Dec. 31, 1872 100 Do. do. 1881 100 (,;or.6p.e.Ja, .2.1 u 1; 1877-81 .... 100 04 96 96 Do. p. c. Feb. & ' Aug 100 91 91 Do. 6p. c.Mar. & Sept 100 91 Pi Do. Ep. c. Jan.&July. 10e 80 85 821 2 Do. 5 lnscribed stool. 100 78 82 !ape G.llope, 6 p 0,187: 100 101 106 Do.Ap & Oct. 189 100 104 106 Do. 189( 100 it 5 107 )o. Jan. & July. 1891. 100 107 10.1 Nov.lS6B, 6 p 100 102 105 Do. 1878, do 100 U 9 112 Nlauritius 6 p.cent.lB73 00 102 105 Do. 1878 100 104 107 105 41 Do. 1889 100 105 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cont 100 1.02 le4 1031 V.B.Gov. p.c. J a.LIzJul 100 93 96 93 4. S.W. Goy. 5 p c.,18,0 100 97 99 Du. sp. c.,1871 to 187, 100 95 97 Do. d0.,1888 &upwd. 100 04 96 93 iew Zealand 6 p cent 100 102 104 iovs. Scotia Gov. 6 p. Eterling, 1875 lueensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO 100 102 101 i. Aus Co v. 6 p.c.1868- 100 Do. 176 & upward , lOO 105 107 trtc.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 Do. 10 6 p.o. An. 10.004.. 100 1011 1051 105 41 BRITISH MINES. 2 ;alniumin Consul. Gold 1 1 Chiverton 3 str )10iorit Amalgamated 31 )even G. Cone.(Tavist 1 580 600 590 DrakewaUs.. i.ant Baseett(lllogan) su 55 60 60 East Caradon ..... 3.14.0 2:3 24 ;.',ast Cara Area... 3.4 .0 61 East Grenville .. East Lovell 1 , 1 ,1 '1R/we! (Tavldtx. 8.13, 41 41 ..lam..tSt.Aubyn(G wen (30 6 8 4 Great Laxey, Urn...!... all 151 161 5/ Ireat Soutli 17$ la 2 I. Wheal Vor (Lielston 40 31 33 321 irenville.. :Lev:Ws-Foot s.l3 37 39 lingston Downs 1.18.. 4 4. vlargaret (Uny Lelanl s 1 7 9 darke Valley.. 4 .Ivn(ly Iron Ore (Lim. 21 11 19 21 0 ew I)mronta , 3 / North Roskear.. . 291 18 20 n'i riaseet(lllo{2.l, 3.11.6 11 2 "orth Wheal Crotty . 2.8 0 21 2/ Prosper United...., ... 7.1. A. 3} 31 -rovideooe(Uuy Lelui. 1G 6.7 36 3i iouth Caradon(St.Cleer 11 ..20 540 Fran. (Mogul 08.15.1 33 36 —• Stray Park l'inCron it 15 16 15 Nest Basset (Illogan).. 11 8 9 .V C' radon (Liskeard 2 5 6 West Chiverton Nest Sewn. Nheal 13as:.et (Man 5 e 3 Nheal Buller(Redru og th, 10 93 12 14 'vVhealLudeott Wheal Mary Ann (Men BBl 2 1 5 17 Wheal Beton 5B/ 200 205 Wheal Trelawney (Lls 7 18 2) ‘Vheal Union 4 I 14 FRENERENCE SIIARICS. Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., ( 1084 tto, 5 per cent., redeemable at 5 per cent., 103 Western, 5 per cent. red. pt., 10.4 ;onsolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ltto, Bristol and Biren., 6 per cent., itto 4 per cent., pf. st. red.. 99 St Eastern (Reading Arms., £1.0,6), ktto Fixed 4i per cent. 981 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Northern, 5 per cent., irred 108 Kent Coast, 6 per cent. pref. li, 1021 Great . Great Mid ( South LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London and Greenwich, GO Nottngham and Grantham R. & C, Olt 2 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 9j• Great Luxembourg, 2k l lo San Until() gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 18 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 10i FOREIGN MINES, Ang,lo 'Brazilian Gold, limited, East del hey (lim.), Yudanamutana of S. Australia, lim., M 2 BANKS. Agra and Misterman's (lim.), 118 19 Alliance (lim.), I'4l 3 4 Ditto, new, 331 1/ Ditto, new, issued at 29:pm., 16 15 Anglo Austrian, fi Anglo-Italian, lim., 3a Australasia, to f Bank of British Columbia, 15/ Bank of Egypt, 201 I Bank of London, 147 5 50 Bank of New Zealand, 151 Brazilian and Portuguese, UM.. 102 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China, 31 34 Commercial Bank of India and the East, Ditto, issued at 10:pm., of which 10 is pd., 271 7 Consolidated Bank, lim., Continental, lim., 17 European Bank, lim., ilindustan, China, and Japan (Um.), 26 i Ditto, new, 18 Imper i a l Ottoman, 151 f a Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 41 a London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lim., 41 London and County, 691 701 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, lien., 10_ 1 1 London Joint Stock, 44 31 4 London and South Af rican, 201 1 London and Westminster, 04 3) Merchant Bank, iim , 2 ) Mercantile and Exchange, lim., 81 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 10 18 Ditto (.610), 9 Oriental Bank Corporation, 53 Provincial of Ireland, 893 ScinclP, l'unklub. and Delhi, lim., 1 , Union of Australia, 51 Uulou of Loudon, 51 6A E 3121 Business done 1001 100 b I THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1864. DOCKS. East and West India. 1351 London and St. Katharine, 661 / 3IISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, , 81 Commercial Union, Insurance, sa I 4 Credit Fancier and Mobilier of England, Ditto (£2), 4 Discount Corporation, 12. i Egyptian Corn. and Trading, lira., 41 Electric Telegraph, Its Financial Corporation, ! Fore-street Warehouse, lira., 81 Gen. Credit and Finance of Loudon, lim., 6a & 1 General Steam Navigation, 2411 Home and C donial A ssurance, lim , 4; Hudson's Bay, 15} 1 Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso. Ihn., International Financial ~ , ociety, International Land Credit. lira., Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 00, 84 5 Joint Stock Discount, lira., 3 2/ London Financial Association, lim., 2i B Ditto, new, I.OR- 1 L ,. .ndon General Omnibus Company, 21 Milwall Iron Works,l4l Natal Land and Consolidation Company, lim , National Discount Company, lim., I,a Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 13 Royal Mail Steam, 13 4 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lim., 61 Universal Marine. Insurance, Urn., si CENrRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) ROBBERY. Edward Carlton, alias Peter Watkins, 32, described as a carpen•er, was indicted for stealing 40 yards of linsey cloth, value £3 10s, the property of Richard Lawton, a warehouse man in the City. The prisoner cross-examined the persons who captured him with great adroitness, to show that there were jobbing porters in the City, who carried about goods for warehouse men, and that he willingly went back to Mr Laxton's as soon as he was accused of the robbery. A clerk in the employment of the owner of the property said the prisoner had no authority to remove the goods; and that the firm never sent goods by such persons. lie knew nothing of the prisoner. . The prisoner, having no counsel, addressed the jury in his own defence, urging that his conduct did not imply guilt. Lhe jury however took an entirely different view of the case, and with,Jut a moment's hesitation found him guilty. A police officer proved a previous conviction, and as ho had nGt reported himself under the new regulations on leaving his penal servitude before the expiration of his time he was on the look out for him. The Recorder sentenced him to snen years penal:servi- Lode. PAWNBROKERS. Several pawnbrokers who had taken m things of value from a young man who was indicted for stealing them, wore called, and their expenses were disallowed by the Recorder. MULLER'S CASE. This afternoon, shortly after 12 o'clock, the witnesses who have been summoned in the case of Franz Muller, who is charged with the murder of Mr Thomas Briggs, on the North London Railway, attended before the Grand Jury, Mr Edward Mappin being the tireman. The avenues of the court were crowded with people who were content to catch even a hasty glance of the persons who are to play a promi nent part in the trial. Fifty-one witnesses have been sub visaed on the part of the prosecution, but the evidence of a vast number of them is of little more than a formal cha. rooter, and will occupy the Court but a short time. It is thought the witnesses, who will be subjected to a rigorous cross-examination, will not be more than eight. The in vestigation by the Grand Jury was, of course, conducted with closed doors, but it is understand that Mr T. Briggs, a son of the deceased, Mr Death the jeweller, Mathews the cabman, end others, bore testimony to the facts in reference to which they spoke when they were before the police ma gistrate and the coroner. The Grand Jury found a true bill against Muller. A Family Scene at St, Cloud. A writer in Bentley's Miscellany furnishes the following interesting sketch.—(Charming reading for Mr Kinglake.) The Empress was close before us on the upper terrace, which is connected with her apartments by a light iron bridge. This bridge was entirely concealed by a wild vine, whose splendid dark red leaves were the sole thing which reminded us of autumn. The terrace was still covered with the gayest flowers, and orange and pomegranite flowers stood in the open air. In the centre near a perfect mound of flowers, the Empress was seated in one of those pretty wire-work chairs, which are elegantly made in Paris; In front of her lay, on a similar table, a book and some needle. work in a plain basket. The face of the exalted lady was sickly and pale--the noble profile, which appears so classical in marble busts of the Empress, was still the same—and so was the full hair, but in the features there was a sorrow, and the pallor was almost painful to look on. A cheetful contrast was afforded by the youthful Prince; he was play ing with a snow white dog, which impudently leaped on the lap of the Empress. What does a dog know of the etiquette of court P The Prince is a remarkably handsome boy, tall and well grown for his age, with curly hair, and round fresh face, with clever eyes, and very like one of Raphael's angels ; at the same time his manner is admir able, and there is grace in all his movements. lie wore the trousers of the corporal's uniform, and over them a blouse, pale yellow with blue embroidery, which became him well, In the background sat two ladies, in one of whom I recog nised Madame Bruat. " Gouvernante des Enfants de France." At this moment the Emperor slowly crossed the iron bridge ; an old white haired gentleman accompanied him, Mocquard, the chief of his cabinet. The Emperor said a couple of words to him, and then dismissed him with a kindly wave of the hand. Mocquard, after making a deep bow, disappeared. The little Prince ran to meet his father and the dog barked at the Emperor most improperly. The latter raised his son from the ground, kissed him on the forehead, then took his hand, and walked with him up to his mother, the Empress rose and the couple walked along the flower beds in conversation, with the Prince behind them. The Emperor was in civilian dress, with hat and gloves and the traditional lilac paletot—a fashion which the King of Holland left him on his visit. The Emperor looked remarkably stout; his face was as usual dark and stern, and the heavy moustache rendered it still sterner. Still he seemed to be in good spirits ; he often laid his hued on.the Pat:as curly head, and pointed to several of the flower-pots, as if telling him the names of the plants. The Empress soon seated herself again at her former seat, the Emperor took a chair by her side, and took a portfo'io, in which he wrote, though without inter upting his conversation with the Empress. The Prince was very busy with his mother's work-basket, and listened the while to Ills parents' conversation. The little Prince suddenly addresses a question to his father, who shakes his head in refusal ; but the boy leaps on his knee, and begs and coaxes, and at last draws his mother into the embrace. At length the Emperor appears to give way, and consent, the Prince at last leaps about merrily, the lapdog comes to life again, too, and the old gentleman with the white hair appears again in the allee and begins bowing long before their Majesties notice him. M. Mocquard an nounces that the Ministers are assembled, and awaiting the Emperor. His Majesty rises, kisses his son, and seems to repeat his promise; then he cliffs the Empress his arm, and escorts her over the bridge to her apartments. The Prince remains on the terrace with the two other ladies and the lapdog, when M. Mocquard disappears again on the side alio°. On the same day I read the following notice in an evening paper :—" The Emperor came this afternoon from St. Cloud to Paris, in order to inspect the new Boulevard du Prince Eugene; he was in a light open phaeton, and drove himself. The Prince Imperial was seated by his side —the first time ho has accompanied his Majesty on such a drive. The carriage was without escort—there was only two footmen behind. his Majesty was received with loud shouts on all the Boulevards, and the public were delighted at the pleasant salutes which the little Prince offered on all sides." It was this, then, the little Prince had asked and coaxed from his father—a trip with papa, and not, as usual, in the largo stupid four-horse state coach, surrounded by chattering dragoons and aides-de-camp. FATAL ACCIDENT ON LUDGATE-111LL..--An in■ quest took place yesterday before the City coroner, at St Bartholomew's Hospital, concerning the death of a man named Garrett Puna, a labourer, aged 53, under the following circumstances :—The deceased was employed on the works of the new bridge for the railway which crosses Ludgate-hill, and was at work on a scaffolding 16 feet from the ground. One of his companions dropped a coat to the ground, and the deceased removed ono of the planks on the scaffolding, leaving a gap through which he drew up the coat. Ho replaced the plank, but, as it proved, did not do so properly, for stepping on it afterwards it gave way, and he fell through the aperture. He was painfully injured, and, having been removed to the hos pital, died on Saturday. His back was broken by the fall, and ho suffered dreadfully from the injuries. The jury found a verdict of " Accidental death," EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE OF THREE POTATOES. —Three large-sized potatoes, planted in Mr. Ran som's garden, at Hawthorne Cottage, on Southampton Common, wore this week dug up, and found to have pro duced 362, weighing in the aggregate 711bs. A dozen weighed 16 lbs., and four selected from the dozen weighed 6i lbs. The largest single potato weighed 2 lbs. 7 oz. These potatoes were planted about three feet apart, and kept well earthed up as they grew, each forming a small moand about 18 inches high.--Hants Advertiser. --- PUNISHMENT FOR, STEALING ►.SIX WALNUTS.- A. country magistrate lately inflicted a punishment of six months imprisonment with hard labour on a youth named William Webb, for stealing six walnuts from a tree, or one month's imprisonment per nut I Mr Nottage, of Tulso hill, brought the fact before the Home Secretary, and has just received the following reply:—" Whitehall, Oct. 20, InG , l.—Sir,—The Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment having considered your application in behalf of Win. Webb, I have the satiOaelion to acquaint you that he has felt warranted, finder all the circumstances, in advising her Majesty to reduce the prisoner's sentence to imprisonment 'or one mouth,—l RM, sir, ecc., T. G. BARlNG.—Gleorge a. Nottage, LGq., Sidawutla Lodge, 'Yule-hill.'! POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---This day. MARLBOROUGH-ST BEET. THE FOREIGN PROSTITUTE NUIBANCEI IN REGENT STREET,—Mario Debacker, Emma Mailer, and Louisa Ackling, prostitutes, the first two foreigners, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with behaving in a disorderly manner in Regent-street, and Mailer was further charged with assaulting police-constable Goddard, 302 A, and Ackling with assaulting police-constable Bucking ham, Mi A. _ _ _ Goddard said that at a quarter past 12 last night ho saw Mailer and Debacker in company with four other foreign prostitutes in front of the County Fira office in Regent street. lie told them to separate, as there were so many of them there, and some of them were abort to do so, whoa Muller refused to go, and used a low expression in English, and then placed herself against the wall, saying "I'll not go for you—you arc one —," On taking hold of her arm to remove her she began smack ing his face, and Debacker and the others then laid hold of Mailer and tried to pull her away. At this time there were about a d( z:a prostitutes—mostly foreign once— several of their men, aDd about 100 other persons col lected. Another constable came to his assistance, and they then took Maher and Dobacker into custody, when Mailer became very violent—kicking and scratching. Buckingham, 32S A, s a id h e h e ard screaming under the County Fire-office, and on go i ng to the place found Mailer and Goddard struggling t oge ther. There were several women and three men trying to gat Mailer away, Dobacker also taking part. While going to the station with Mailer and Debacker, Ackling came up and knocked off his hat. Mailer denied striking the constable, and said the reason he interfered with her was because she refused to give him money. Mr Tyrwhitt said he had not the slightest doubt the psisoners had been guilty of disorderly conduct. The con stables were pet fectly tight in dispersing them ; and if they did not carry on their wretched trade quietly, and were brought before him again, he would send them to prison for a month. The charge Mailer had made against the police evidently was made from petty malice. He should flue Mailer 20s, Debacker 6s, and Adding 10s. Mr Albert, who had interpreted, repeated the magis trate's caution to them. Art Imroszon.—JohnTooke, a boy living in Great Wyld street, Drury-lane, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with begging in Regent-street. The prisoner was seen by Turner, one of the Mondicity officers, in Regent-street yesterday afternoon, with a board round his neck, on which were the words "Totally blind and fatherless," a dog with a tin cup fastened round its neck being by his side. In consequence of complaints wade to the Society, Turner watched the prisoner for some time, and saw him joined by three girls, when they all com menced playing at "pitch and toss," and on one of the girls throwing up four half-pence and saying they were all women, the prisoner, although supposed to bo totally blind, cried out "It's a-- lie, they are all heads." which Turner, on stepping up found to be the case. The prisoner then walked away to the chapel in Regent-street, when Turner, in the presence of a lady and gentleman, asked the prisoner whether ho was totally blind, and be said ho was and had been for five years. Turner then toek the prisoner into custody, but not till several persons had given him money. On the way to the station the prisoner admitted that ho was not blind, but said that he had something the matter,with his eyes, and that ho went out begging to keep his mother and the rest of them. Mr Tyrwhitt said as the prisoner had never been brought to the Court before ho would discharge him, but if ho were brought before him again he would commit him for a month. WESTMINSTER. DISGRACEFVL OUTRAGE.—Peter Manning, a very stout, powerful man, was brought before Vie magistrate, charged with the following disgraceful conduct at the house of Mr Soutbewaite, the General Havelock, Itanelagh grove, Pimlico. Mr Southowaite said he was sitting in his parlour with some friends at half-past seven o'clock, when his wife in • formed him that there was a man at the bar making a great disturbance and insulting the customers. Com plainant went to the bar whore he found the defendant making a great uproar, and quietly went up to remonstrate with him, and had just commenced with " Now, my good man,'' when defendant struck hfm a violent blow in the eye, which cut the lil open. Defendant then flew at him and scratched his face in a frightful way. He then closed onfcomplainant and hurt him very much. He seizLd him by the hair of the bead, and hell him so tightly that ho could neither get away nor move. After that he struck him about the body and kicked him violently on the legs, and it required five men to relieve from his violence. Mr Arnold—Have you had any difference or quarrel with the defendant at any time P Complainant—No, sir, I have not. I have given him no provocation at all, and am very much hurt by his violence. Dsiendant said he want into the house and had a differ ence with one of the customers when ho was struck by somebody, and then the landlord of the house came up and ill used him. A witness was called for complainant who completely contradicted this statement, and said that defendant's con duct was altogether most disgraceful. lip threw the cus tom.'.' ahnnt, huzged the landlord like a bear and scratched him like a cat." lie then struck another man who would not permit it. The police proved that the landlord was bleeding from the eyes, and was much ill used. The defendant was also bleeding, and a man present said he had done it. Mr Arnold (to defendant)—Your conduct has been very bad. You are fined the full penalty of L 5 or two months, and to enter into your own recognisances to keep the peace for six months. THAMES. DRYNKEN AND DISOI;DERL GERMANS.—AIbert Linger, Otho Theodore Alexander Linger, his son, Frederic Wilhelm Pabst, and Andrew Klantz, Germans, for whom M. Wintzen, an interpreter, was provided, were brought be fore Mr. Partridge, charged with being disorderly and committing other offences in violation of police law morality and good order. John Chester, a police constable, No. 23 H, stated that at two o'clock this morning ho was on duty in the White chapel-road, and saw the two Lingers, father and son, and two other Germans on the pavement. They were shout ing and singing loudly. He requested them to desist, and not to make so much noise. They walked about twenty yards and did stop. They recommenced their singing and shouting and he again interfered. The Ger mans again desisted, and in less than a minute afterwards began to shout and sing again. He reminded them that people were in their be fa and wanted rest. The four Germans then committed a nuisance on the pavement, and he asked them to turn round and be decent. Another German came up and said, " Take no notice, wo have been out at a party." Directly afterwards Albert Linger struck him on the hat with a stick and knocked the hat off. The hat was broken. The same prisoner then struck him three times on the bare head with the stick. He drew his truncheon and struck the prisoner across the arm. Another police constable named William Crofts, No. 129 H, then came up, and Otto Linger said, " You shall not take my father," and hit him twice on the ribs. He took the stick from Albert Linger, and 129 II captured Otto Linger. On the way to the station he was in advance with Albert Linger, and Otto kicked him behind. The other two prisoners he had not seen before came up and made an attempt to rescue the Lingers. A scene of great disorder and violence ensued, and in the mad other constables arrived, and all the prisoners wore secured. Croft, 129 H, and Perks, IS4 K, gave confirmatory evi • dance, and said all the prisoners were exceedingly violent and noisy. The prisoners generally denied all that was alleged against him, and complained th y had been unjustly in terfered with. They called a witness, a German, who said Albert Linger was badly used by the Constable Ches ter, and that Otto only interposed to protect his father. The other prisoners went after the Lingers to the station-house, and were called in. To their surprise they were detained as prisoners. The witness admitted that he was neither drunk or sober, and that the prisoners were not quite saber. A German, named Hildebrandt, and his wife, an Eng lishwoman, gave similar evidence, and said Albert Linger was badly used, thrown down, and knelt upon by Chester. After an investigation, which lasted an hour and a half, Mr Partridge said the witnesses for the defence did not come up till the assaults on the police were committed. Ho sentenced Albert Linger to one month's imprisonment ; Otto, his son, to nineteen days' imprisonment ; Pupal to pay a fine of 20s; and Klantz to pay 103. MARKETS—This Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITRFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 15s to £5 10s ; clover, 7s to 103 per load. I Su 5 CUMRERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 15s to £5 109; clover, L 5 Os to £6 153 Od ; and straw, £1 7s to £1 iOs per load, l O p s ly to m t6 d elrastsoo;d t;raadnedfiartmra.w, Trade steady. WIIITECHAPEL,—Meadow hay, £3159 to is 10s ; clover, £5 Os to £6 1.53 Od ; and straw, £1 7s to £1 lOs per load. Trade firm. COLONIAL. TEA —Only a mederato amount of business has been done, and prices in some instances are a shade flatter. SUGAR..—Business has continued quiet, and prices have not varied to any important extent. In the refined market quotations are in most instances fully maintained. COFFEE.—There has been a fair demand for fine quali ties of colonial, which have realised former rates. Ricn.—A fair demand lr.s existed for East India, which have sold at heavy rates. TALLOW,—Tho :market has experienced a reaction after the late severe depression, and pri ces for both preFent and f orwar d delivery have unproved. P.Y.C. cn the spot. i. quoted 40s, December 41s, and January to March 42s 3d per cwt. MR GREENOUGH . , the well-known American sculptor, has just sent from his atslier to London a bust of tho distinguished actress Miss Helen Faucit, which, as a wurk of art, has received the highest commendation from the amateurs of rads, An Adventure in a Railway Carriage. AMERICA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, OCt. 8, 1864. The exposures that from time to time ooze out with reference to the acts and doings of the recruiting organisations of New York, Boston, &c., with their affiliated branches in Europe, probably have by slow degrees opened the eyes of the British public to the fact that virtual, if not illegal wrongs, have been committed by the Uaited States on British subjects as well as other foreigners. When statements were made long since by cor responden's of London journals and others con cerning the frauds to which emigrants had been subj , cted in this country by agents of the Wash ington GJvernment connected with the recruiting department, certain newspapers published in Len- Jon—that, whether right or wrong, ar© commonly considered here as• "retained" by the Northern ad ministration—denounced these statements as mere prejudicial representations. Other persons, who are generally described as friendly to the North, took the same course. For instance, the Duke of Argyll pompously in the House of Lords, and Mr Goldwin Smith snappishly, in his pamphlets Bent out for circulation over here, said to the effect that no blame whatever was to be attached to anyone whatever in relation to the re. cruiting for the Northern armies: Some of the friends of the North went further, and did what the late Mr O'Connell said was one of the most foolish things a witness can do—viz., they tried to prove too touch. They stated that after all there were not many Irish in the Northern armie3, and sought to back up their assertions upon a matter of which they knew nothing by citing the offhand cpinion of Mr Seward, who knows a good deal about the affair in question, but who, whether in his prophetic capacity as to the " war ending in ninety days," or assertions contained in voluminous despatches, has shown that more than occasionally he makes mistakes. Mr Seward was represented to have announced that by far the largest proportion of the Northern armies was composed of American citizens. This, however, did not throw much light upon the matter with reference to where those "citizens" came from, or, in other words, to what " nationality" they be• longed when they enlisted. Mr Seward might just as well have said—but that would not have an swered the purpose ho and the apologists of the North had in view—that the entire of the army was made up of American citizens. In fact, the moment a man has enlisted therein, he is de facto and de jure a " citizen of the United States." I have merely referred to this to show how ridiculous it is to found any correct idea as to the proportion of Irish or Germans, &c., there may be in the Northern army from Mr Seward's smart dictum. It is not either for the purpose of complaint that I refer to these recruitmente. The law efficers of the Crown appear to consider that the Foreign En listment Act, and ouch like laws, arc nearly inopera tive—that, like other things mentioned in the old adage, they are " made to be broken." It is true, that in the cases of alleged attempts at evasion of those laws by stated agents of the Confederate authorities, either those agents were not so smart as the Northern ones or our officials saw their way more clearly in, what is conventionally called, yin dicating " the majesty of the law ;" but let that pass. Whether the neutrality that has been pro• claimed on the part of England has been impartially carried out by her executive, is a question I am not presumptuous enough to enter into in a casual way , or in any way at present, However, as it has pleased some persons to try and raise doubts that the large emigration to this country has been turned to account for the purpose of filling up the armies of the Northern States, after the real "citizens" thereof were unwilling or unable to come forward themselves, I subjoin extracts from an official document that will probably " settle the point," once and for all, in the minds of any ration:-.1 people. The following is from the report of Provost- Marshal General Fry to Secretary Staunton, relative to Governor Seymour's complaint of an excessive enrolment in the State of New York : " It is true that the enrolment (and consequently the quota) is larger in these than in many other districts. bat the population of these districts iR more derse, and there are actually more men liable to enrolment in them than in others. . . . . But even if the enrolment and quotas in New York and Brooklyn are unduly large, the claim that' the in habitants' of these cities are subject to ' oppressive and injurious' burdens, and their families broken up and ruined,' is not a good one, for it is a fact that the balk of foreign emigrants to the United States arrive in New _York, and they are actually used by Nov York and Brooklyn to fill a large pro portion of the quotas assigned to these cities. " The State of New York forbids all other States from having access to these recruits. No other state has this source of supply to such an extent, and many are entirely without it." Surely this irrefragable testimony of " the foreign emigrants being used," as described, bears out clearly, though of course very unintentionally, the s ubstance of the statements made by th© Mayor of New York City and others, on the wilolesale abuses of the recruiting organisations. Although not directly connected with the emi gration question, it is well to see the realities as to employment in cities in the United States, not taken from British authorities, but in this instance from a weekly New York newspaper, one of the oldest established and respectably conducted papers in America, and of bitter "anti-British procli vities" : "A TOUCHING CASE.—The working women in the city have petitioned the Secretary of War to do something that will enable them to get from the contractors more than six cents a piece for making army shirts. In the name of humanity, :o say nothing of those finer impulses which should govern every man in his dealings with the gentler sex, we protest against such a shamefully inadequate sum as the wages of labour. Six cents for making a shirt ! and bread ten cents a small loaf, meat twenty cents a pound, butter beyond all mention in cone nection with poor people. But what can the Sccre. tart' do in such a matter ? Very little. The con. tractors get the highest price they can for their work, but they will not pay one woman a penny more than another woman will do it for, and dire necessity teaches thousands that even six cents fur food is better than no food at all." The same newspaper gives expression to senti ments which ought to make German and other foreign buyers of " U.S. Securities" ponder as to whether there may not be safer countries to invest money in, whatever place it may be to emigrate to for those who have none. The suit brought against Surgeon General Ham mond for availing himself of his official position to defraud, in blanket and other contracts, the national t:easury, is for the sum of 150,000 dole. If every army official could be compelled to disgorge the money he has corruptly appropriated since the war commenced, the country would be, at least, five . _ hundred millions less in debt, and we should have thirty millions less per annum to pay in taxation, It is not the honest war debt that the people of the United States may possibly dream, in some future petulant moment, of repudiating, but the downright stealings of men in office—stealings which threaten to swell that debt to an extent beyond all national conception, and taint its integrity beyond all national endurance. We hope never to see our country's good name debased by " repudiation ;'' but the re• publican Legislature of New York did " repudiate" at its late session, and Congress is composed of no better human materiale. We hope never to witness such a thing, we repeat, but if ever we do, it will surely be because our war debt embraces so much chat has gone to enrich private venality instead of promoting the public welfare. THE BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER AT WOODFORD --Yesterday morning, when the magistrate took his seat on the bench at the Stratford Police-court, he inquired of Inspector Standage if the burglars in the abov, case had been discovered. The inspector answered in tht negative, and added that the police-constable who had been so brutally attacked was in a sinking condition. Informa tion had been received from Scotland-yard, Whitehall, that Government would grant a reward for the apprehension o. the litttgl.l6, A reverend gentleman, living at Gloucester, hes commu nicated the following extraordinary narrative to our corre spondent in that city :—Travelling from London to Glou cester on Thursday by the exprees train which lest Padding ton at 11 , 15, a scene took place which shows (if additional proof were required) the importance of establishing some means of communication between the passengers and the guard. I had a second class ticket, and anxious to avoid the inconvenience of changing at Swindon, I took a seat in the through carriage to Gloucester. My fellow travellers were two ladies, who were going, I think, into South Wales, and I had just settled snugly in a corner, and prepared for a few hours' quiet reading, when my attention was attracted by the entrance of a man in a sailor's dress, whose bloodshot eyes and savage mien, told of drunkenness. I was on the point of seeking the guard, whin the fellow suddenly left the carriage, and, the guard coming up at the moment, I requested that he -would not allow him to return. But to my surprise, almost at the instant of starting, the fellow burst into th 3 carriage, fol lowed by the guard, who warned him that if ho did not be have properly ho would be left on the road. Now, this was not a pleasant prespect. We were to run to Swindon with out stopping, and were to be all this time caged with a drunken rad en. But there was no help for it. In the course of some ten or twelve minutes the fellow vehemently proclaimed himself "a Southern privateer and an enemy to the English." Rising from his seat he staggered over the feet of the ladies, and, confronting me, demanded what I had to say, threatening to " smash my sky lights" if I did not tell him my opinion, and flourishing his huge fist in my face by way of warning. I quieted him for a few minutes by getting him to tell us something of his early life. Ho said he was an English man, had run away from home when a boy, bad gone to South America, and that when the war broke out he had taken service in a Southern privateer. His tale was mixed up with such oaths and blasphemies that I was glad to withdraw my attention, whereupon to my dismay he pro duced a bottle of strong drink of some kind, and swore he would " treat the company." Ho put it to his mouth by way of showing us how to do it, and took a pull so hearty and, so long that he swallowed one-half the contents. Declaring in words not to be repeated that the man or woman who did not drink should "catch it," he pre sented the bottle to each of the ladies. Having spent about ten minutes coexing and threatening them, he turned to me. I expected I was "in for it," but upon my refusal he only expressed contempt for " old Jinnies," and took the remainder himself at one gulp. This over, ho prepared for smoking, and seeing it alarm us, he amused himself for some time in throwing about half-burnt matches. He had learnt the tree and easy habits of American society, and spat with an accuracy of aim that vas undeniable, for he made my face the target on two or three occasions. When he had satisfied himself upon this head he grew heavy. and, stretching out his legs so as to take up one side of •the carriage, he fell, as we delightedly supposed, into a sleep I settled down to read, and had been perhaps 10 minutes or so employed, when I was startled by a shriek and a spring from one of the ladies, and on looking up 1 saw, to my terror, that the fellow had suddenly opened the window, and had so far succeeded in getting out that but for the pre sence of mind and courage of the lady, who had seized him by the hair, he would have been under the wheels in another moment. By uniting our efforts we were able to drag him in, but for full a quarter of an hour he fought and tore like a savage, leaping at the window, and we restrained him, till at last he was compelled to desist through sheer exhaustion. What a situation to be in I He then adopted a line of totaliation which was so grossly indecent and outragious that I dare not describe it. The poor ladies (whose conduct exceeded all praise) huddled together into a corner, while I stool in front guarding them with a stout umbrella. I con fess if at this moment the scoundrel had attempted to get out of the window again I thick I should have allowed him his own way. Providentially the engine-driver found it necessary to stop at Vantage-road, and I succeeded in obtaining aid, and had him removed. If we had been com pelled to run all the way to Swindon, Heaven, who pre , served us, only knows what might have happened. TLe writer adds :—" Now, I think you will agree with me when I say that it was a shameful outrage to put such a ruffian into our carriage, or into any carriage, with civilised people. True it is we were only second-class passengers, but that is not sufficient reason—at least to us—why we should have been terrified almost cut of our lives, and disgusted to loathing by the conduct of this drunken scoundrel. Never did I fuel so utterly helpless. It put my head out of the 1 window, and I called till I became hoarse, and although the guard was within a few yards we might have been mur dered for any help he could have rendered ; and all this in open day, and on the Great Western Railway I Perhaps if some of the wives and daughters of some of the directors had been in the carriage something might come of it, but of coutao as they travel in the first class such a thing is not likely to happen to them ; and yet poor Briggs's case shows us that even there people are not always safe. How lung will the public bear this kind of thing ? Surely it is our duty to call upon Government to compel the directors to action,"— IRstern Daily Prces. A GREAT GUN—DUT NOT QUITE A TEN THOU SAND POUNDER !—A ridiculous paragraph has been going the round of the press, stating that Mr Tennyson has pocketed not less than £lO,OOO by the sale of his last volume —"Enoch Arden." We do not pretend to be acquainted with the Laureate's financial affairs, nor to know how much money his publishers have paid him; but this we do know—and from the best authority—that up to the present time about 32,000 copies of the work in question have been sold. On no other business matter is there usually dis played so much popular misconception and ignorance as when the profits arising from the publications of eminent authors are concerned. The habits, dress, and incomes of great men will always be matter of lively interest to curious readers and to " worshippers ;" but a little common sense should at least guide those who construct ana, and concoct literary statistics. "Enoch Arden" is a six-shilling book; a part of this amount---say something less than two shillings —will have to be deducted as the trade percentage or book sellers' allowance, the printer will take:another portion, the binder another, and the paper merchant and advertising agent will also expect to be paid. Assuming that two shillings per copy, or even three shiliings, may be the author's royalty, it is tolerably clear that the £lO,OOO said to be Mr Tennyson's recent gain is simply one of those pleasant fictions started and circulated for popular amuse ment. So few poetical publications ever pay for paper and print that a great metrical success is not unlikely to mag nify itself—and this. we suppose, must be the excuse for the paragraph in error recently circulated. MANNING THE NATY.—The continuous-service men who entered the navy in considerable numbers in the year 1854 are now rapidly claiming their discharge; and although various ways are attempted by which they may be attracted to remain in the service, yet few, if any, consent to prolong their term. We deeply regret that such is the fact, as we are all interested in maintaining the efficiency of the navy; but it would not only be fruitless, but mischie vous to disguise the truth. We have been informed that only lately 70 seamen claimed their discharge from the Marlborough at Malta. This, of course, could not be re fused to them; but when the question of a passage to Eng land was mooted, no one would come to their assistance and the men had to find their way home as best they could. This is not the best method to pursue if we desire to induce sailors " to love their country and honour their Queen."— Army and Navy Gazzlte. THE STONE RECORD.—Colonel Greenwood writes as follows to the Athenceuni :—" A creator without a creation is scarcely more contradictory than a creation without creatures. And reason and analogy teach us that before the first strata wore formed on this globe, its land, air, and waters must have teemed with life. As strata re sult from slow aqueous erosion and denudation, thousands of years, or thousands of ages must have passed during the formation of the first strata; and it is as contrary to the Mosaic account as it is to all reason and analogy, to suppose that the Almighty Creator should have lift his magnificent work, this glorious globe, to swing through space tenantless for ages. What evidence have we that land aninaels of the highest order did not exist from the first ? Why, tiaet that we do not find fossils of land animals in sea strata. This argument is, as I have said, as childishly absurd as if Columbus had told us that America had no land animals on it, because he had dredged the sea, and had found no re mains of them. Tai de magna proveniunt, but it is satisfac tory, at last, to find Sir Charles Lyell at Bath saying that he agrees with Mr Darwin that the stone record is frag mentary and incomplete. But, on this fact, and on the rea sons of this fact, is founded a main argument, which runs through the whole of ' Rain and Rivers,' in which a chap ter is headed, Man may have existed in the Silurian Period.' This was published in 1857, long before The Origin of Species,' or the French river -terraces, or the Danish shell-mounds, or the Swiss lake villages, or The Antiqu:ty of Man' were heard of. The two great men, however, have taken one step in the right direction. But they will have to take a great many more. lniti4os nos ercditnus—in vestibule hmi emus. And, I may add, voila tcvipus quo posteri nomtri Con apert3 nos nescisse mirentnr, and that time is at hand. DEATH BY LIGIITNING.—Dr Chretien, of Mont pellier, has sent an account to the French Aca demy of Sciences of a remarkable ins' anco of the terrible ff,cts of lightning. On the 2d inst. he was sent for to as certain the death of a youth of 16, killed instantaneously by the electric fluid in his bed, he being ill at the time. His mother and three young men who had come to see him wore in the room when the catastrophe occurred. One of the young icon was seated at the foot of the bed, another near the bolster, and the thild close to the door of the apartment, which was on the first fhor, contiguous to the roof of the 'louse ; the mother was between the second and third visitors. The lightning penetrated into the house through he wall of a large room adjoining the sick room ; it broke dl the window panes in the fut mu' before reaching the other where the c =pally were. The young man at the foot of he bed load the legs 0 his trousers partially burnt ell ; lie second received a wound on one of his legs, and the mother had her left leg muelly bruised,'the stocking was partially burnt, and deep burns were perceptible on the ihsh. - Her son, as already stated, was killed, and the fluid ilityta„,h hod window, ITALY. TURIN, Oct. 25.—The sittings of the Italian Parliament have been adjourned until further orders UDINE, Oct. 23.—A band of about 100 insurgents, among whom are several deserters, have taken re. fuge in the forest of Consiglio. Several deserters at Cadore and Belluno are endeavouring to join them. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. NEWMARKET RACES—Tnis DAY. (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) MATCH. Finesse bat Olivia. ALL-AGED STAKES. Lord Burl eigh . 1 Exchequer Argonaut left at the post. £5O PLATE. Troubadour.. Orloff Six ran. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Ackworth Tomato Highflyer dam colt Thirty-eight ran. Won by a head ; bad third. ECRATCHINGS Blithfield—Historian—Madcep—Blair Athol Caller Ou Johnny Armstrong Stockowner— Edward the Confessor—Mountain Flower—Adventurer— Morocco Orphelin—Blaekdown—Lawyer—Copenhagen —Queen Crystal Nocturne—Dormouse—Durham—The Clown—Soumise—Filibuster—Carisbrook—Umpire—Tooi Tooi—Comme v.—Melrose—King George—Double Charlemagne Castle Hill— Suspicion— Danaus—Castle Espie Ethelred—Marygold—Merry Hart—Armagnac-- Tommy Jones—Baldwin—Peon—Charming Woman-- Crochet horse—Sigualman—Jessie—Raglan—ldler—Eri n go Bragh—Peignoir—Physician—Narbonne—Antoinett e —Wandering Minstrel—Hersey filly—brother to Itubini—, Charmian, Trap, and Giant. SELLING HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Troublesome Oberon Five ran, HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Coup d'Etat Sidewind Provisor .... 3 Twelve ran. £3O PLATE. Ilippolyt a Johnny Armstrong Gem of the Sea Seven ran. FREE HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Crytheia Rose Five ran. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Pean. Aluaack Foven ran. OPTIONAL SELLING STAKES, Brown "Willy Herschel Nine ran. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OP 10 Soya—Giant paid forfeit. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OP 15 Soya—Giant and CAM-. ball paid forfeit LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening, WAR. OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 25. 61st Regiment of Foot—Major General Edward Hunger ford Delaval Elers Napier to bo Colonel, vice General John Reeve, deceased. ADMIRALTY, OCT. 22. The following promotion has been made :—Mr Samuel Lloyd to be First Class Assistant Engineer, with seniority of 18th October, 1864. BANKRUPTS, The following are the only bankrupts o' commercial im portance in the Gazette : Mark Hamby, watchmaker, Salisbury David Kirby Mawer, upholsterer, Pimlico Robert Lees, cotton spinner, Oldham Edmund 'Whitehead, cotton spinner, Oldham Josiah Lindon, farmer, Old Stratford Henry Maddison, jeweller, Hatton-garden James Bateson Rickards, Hampsteud-road Gorge Phillips, poulterer, Holborn Mark Marks, broker, Cardiff Emanuel Lawrence, innkeeper, Shrewsbury John Hart, commission agent, Monkwell-street, City Henry Nowlan, builder, Rotherbithe Thomas Davies, cheesemonger, King's College-road, St: John's-wood. Thomas Baker, nurseryman, Surbiton-hill, .Kingston- . on-Thames BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. James Morrison, publican, Stapleton. Gloucestershire SCOICH BANKRUPTS. John Bonner, painter, Edinburgh Pearson and Co., wholesale grocer, Glasgow Professor Anderson and the Davenport Brothers—(This Day). This afternoon, in accordarece with an invitation from Professor Anderson, a large party of ladies and gentlemen assembled in St. James's Hall, to witness a performance in daylight similar to that gone through by the Brothers Davenport in the dark. We have but time on the present occasion to say that the whole of the so-called spiritual manifestations, the tying and untying, were very cleverly accomplished by the Professor's daughter and Mr Sutton, his secretary, amidst the vo:iferous cheering of the audience, The tying of both artists previous to their being placed in the cabinet, was minutely inspected by Tom Taylor, Esq., and others, and after it had been declared perfect, in less than five minutes both the lady and the gentleman ap peared perfectly free, the ropes lying at their feet, The musical trick was also very cleverly performed; and at its conclusion, -- Godwin, Esq., proposed a Tote of thanks to the professor, which was agreed t' unani mously. Mr Anderson said the only object ho had in view was to show the absurdity of the so-called spiritualism, and he hoped that what ho had shown to-day would convince all that ropes could be untied without the akd of spirits. SECOND EDITION. 6UN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocs: Course of Exchange,—This Day, Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 12 2} 12 2! Antwerp — 25 80 25 85 Brussels ... 25 80 25 85 Hamburg — 13 10} 13 10f, Paris Ditto Marseilles .. — 25 85 25 871 Frankfort on Maine.. —121 k Vienna .. — 12 20 12 30 Trieste Petereburgli Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn 46k 47 26 5 461 47i 26 10 Mclan .. . . 26 71 - 2E3 i 2/ Genoa .. — 26 7i 26 122 Naples Palermo — 26 7 } 26 12} C&ssina — 26 71 26 121 Lisbon - 51k 51$ Oporto . —51 k Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)......per oz., £3 17 9 Mexican lidlars SHIPPING-THIS DAY, LONDON, Oct. 25.—Wind this day at noon—North- Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. PORT{/017TH. Oct. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived--Sala manes, from London tor Madras, with damage to but warks, &c. _ _ CA ItNARVON, Oct. 23.—Wind B.E.—Arrived—Volante, from Quebec. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 25.—Wind S.E. — Arrived—Hornet, from London for Sydney—London, from London for Mel bourne. BRISTOL, Oot. 24.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived—Dare, From New York. DAILTMOUTII, Oct. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Rosa Bonheur, from Cephalonia, (BY MAGNETIC TELEGILAPII,) Gaevas>✓rn, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Oct. 24—Etuutuus and Tartary from Patras-- King of Tyre, from Faroe. Arrived, Oct. 25- I ,luaternala, from Boston—Chatsworth, from Ca lcutta—Wanteata, from Bombay — Alexandria, from Algua Bay—Forth, from Hamburg. DELL, Tuesday Morning. Passed—Zenith, from London for the west—Fling, from London, for Corfu—Free Lad, from Quebec, for London — Chevy Chase, bark, from the west, for London, da):, and especially o n THUNDER-ST3II3IS IN YORKSHIRE. —Daring Fri - Derw hail and heavy talus, pasaed over Y orkshire, the storm on Friday night, thun der-storms, with Friday night b e i ng especially sever e in the valley of the fell through ou t N or th and East Yorkshire, the farm-rs ent, During the whole . o f Saturday continu ous rains regarding them as a perfect godsend, which would moiten tLo Lard lead and allow wheat sowing to be got on with. 100 Sk 100 stack Stook etook stook stook stock stock stock stock stock ,Lock stoci stock stock 1001